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Girly Man
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 15.00After 9/11, postmodernism and irony were declared dead. Charles Bernstein here proves them alive and well in poems elegiac, defiant, and resilient to the point of approaching song. Heir to the democratic and poetic sensibilities of Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg, Bernstein has always crafted verse that responds to its historical moment, but no previous... more...
My Way
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 34.00"Verse is born free but everywhere in chains. It has been my project to rattle the chains." (from "The Revenge of the Poet-Critic") In My Way, (in)famous language poet and critic Charles Bernstein deploys a wide variety of interlinked forms—speeches and poems, interviews and essays—to explore the place of poetry in American culture and in the... more...
Attack of the Difficult Poems
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 26.00Charles Bernstein is our postmodern jester of American poesy, equal part surveyor of democratic vistas and scholar of avant-garde sensibilities. In a career spanning thirty-five years and forty books, he has challenged and provoked us with writing that is decidedly unafraid of the tensions between ordinary and poetic language, and between everyday... more...
Close Listening
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 46.99Close Listening brings together seventeen strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself, critical attention to modern and postmodern poetry performance has been surprisingly slight. This volume,... more...
Recalculating
University of Chicago Press 2018; US$ 18.00Long anticipated, Recalculating is Charles Bernstein’s first full-length collection of new poems in seven years . As a result of this lengthy time under construction, the scope, scale, and stylistic variation of the poems far surpasses Bernstein’s previous work. Together, the poems of Recalculating take readers on a journey through the history... more...
Pitch of Poetry
University of Chicago Press 2016; US$ 26.00Praised in recent years as a “calculating, improvisatory, essential poet” by Daisy Fried in the New York Times , Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American literary theory. Pitch of Poetry is his irreverent guide to modernist and contemporary poetics. Subjects range across Holocaust representation, Occupy Wall Street, and the figurative... more...
The Inflammatory Bowel Disease Yearbook Volume 3
Remedica Medical Education and Publishing 2006; US$ 45.00In keeping with previous titles, this book provides clinicians and scientists in IBD research with a thorough understanding of recent data in the context of IBD as a whole. more...
Stuttering Research and Practice
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 50.31Current approaches to treating stuttering do not reflect the new understanding of its nature which has emerged from recent studies. This book brings together speech scientists and clinicians to discuss the best ways to close the perceived gap and maximize the effectiveness of treatment. Together, the chapters offer a comprehensive state-of-the-art... more...
Calligraphy Typewriters
University of Alabama Press 2017; US$ 24.95Larry Eigner began writing poetry at age eight and was first published at age nine. Revered by poets and artists across a broad spectrum of generations and schools, Eigner’s remarkably moving poetry was created through enormous effort: because of severe physical disabilities, he produced his texts by typing with only one index finger and thumb on... more...
